Google

Relative links

[wilderness]

Has the google bot gone of the deep-end?

I'm seeing numerous requests in which the "../" has been replaced with the directory name in which the link exists, rather than following the path.

Anybody else seeing these?

[keyplyr]

I'm not seeing that. Do you use those relative links in your code? Maybe a PHP script?

[wilderness]

keyplr,
My pages are simple html with a little CSS.
These particular links today were in-content links, however there was an addition one from the navagtional bar (page bottom) where the current directory was inserted as well.

No scripts or nothing.

All the major bots been reading and spidering my relative links for ten years with no problem.

Nothings changed except google's perception.

Me tinks google just had a brain fart ;)

[keyplyr]

Do you administer the server? If not, could the log reporting have changed? Just considering other possibilities.

[wilderness]

no server. Paid host.

If the log reporting changed?
Wouldn't that have affected the other bots capabilities as well?

Thanks for the suggestion.

I'm still going with the google brain fart ;)

BTW and while we here. . I recently saw MSN read a page which I use especially for redirecting visitors to that I wish to contact, while limiting their access.
The page does NOT have any links in any of my web pages.
Nor are bots redirected to the page.

[keyplyr]

If the log reporting changed? Wouldn't that have affected the other bots capabilities as well?

If these abbrv request paths are clustered into a group, the server admins may have been doing some work during that period of time, affecting only requests through a section of their network. Guess you'll find out if G does it again tomorrow.